Venture Capital Access Program Connecting Minority Entrepreneurs With Venture Capital Resources
Capital is a major component in running and establishing a business. But often times women, African-Americans, and other entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds don’t have the access to it. A program was recently launched to help solve that. The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and The National Association of Investment Companies have announced [...]
Read MoreMyFaceWhen iPhone App Making Text Messaging Fun and Interactive
Do you ever wish you could show some real expression in your text messages? Well Space Age Nerds, an app company based in the nation’s capitol created MyFaceWhen to help you add a little spice to your text life. The mobile app enables users to create textable gifs from user’s pre-recorded videos, the app’s built [...]
Read MoreMinority Student Entrepreneurs Launch Start-up to Help Charities, Apps for Action
Donating to charities helps people across the world, but people are not always proactive in doing so. Apps for Action just might change that. Apps for Action is a new mobile application created by five students that attend Ponoma College in Calif., three of which are minorities. The app allows users to discover free apps that [...]
Read MoreGet Your Script Out, Google+ Hangout on Air is Coming to Everyone
We’ve witnessed live Google+ hangouts before with President Barack Obama, Will.i.Am and others. But according to the Official Google Blog, the feature will be available to all users over the next couple weeks. Google+ Hangout on Air is a great tool to broadcast just about anything live not just on your Google+ profile, but on [...]
Read More7 Startups Launch Out Of NewMe Accelerator’s Spring 2012 Demo Day
7 new startups came out of the NewME Accelerator yesterday. The Spring 2012 Demo Day was featured on TechCrunch: The NewMe Accelerator, a startup incubation program founded last year aimed at under-represented minorities in the tech world (namely African Americans, Latinos, and women), held its second-ever Demo Day today for its latest class of entrepreneurs. A total of seven [...]
Read MoreDetroit Startup gokit Launched Today in Beta by Invitation
As another NewME class graduates today, 2011 NewME graduate Hajj Flemming launches his startup in beta. Flemming announced the beta launch of gokit by invitation today. gokit is described as an online identity platform that allows you to create visually compelling personal homepages that tell your story and share your social network connections in a central location. The [...]
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